Michel Hélou, former general director of L'Orient-Le Jour and unsuccessful candidate in the Lebanese parliamentary elections, was elected on Thursday evening as secretary general of the National...
ISTANBUL — Nebahat Akkoc says her life began afresh after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2000 that she had suffered torture while in Turkish custody, emboldening her and others to...
BEIRUT — An arrest warrant was filed against six Road Traffic Department employees on Thursday, bringing the total number of arrest warrants to 15 amid an ongoing investigation related to...
ADEN, Yemen — Yemen's Houthi group is piling on the pressure to extract economic gains in UN-led talks for an extended truce deal with attacks on oil ports in government-held areas, which officials...
BEIRUT — A Syrian woman was arrested in Zahle, in the Bekaa region, on Thursday for her alleged involvement in illegal abortions and birth deliveries, the state-run National News Agency reported....
BEIRUT — A Middle East Airlines plane was hit on Thursday by a stray bullet, which pierced the fuselage of the aircraft landing at Beirut's international airport, airline director Mohammad el-Hout...
Iran's army ground forces commander, Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, said Thursday that his troops were awaiting orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to intervene against protests...
DOHA, Qatar — Direct charter flights will operate between Israel and Qatar, which do not have formal diplomatic ties, during the upcoming World Cup in Doha, FIFA said Thursday, facilitating...
BEIRUT — Mount Lebanon's first investigating judge Nicolas Mansour on Thursday ordered the release of the depositor Ali Sahili and Catherine al-Ali, both of whom were in custody at the Baabda...
VIENNA — Iran has agreed to a visit from the UN nuclear agency this month to provide answers on the origin of uranium particles found at three sites, according to a Thursday report from the agency....
BEIRUT — Mount Lebanon's Public Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun was summoned on Thursday by Lebanon's top prosecutor, Ghassan Oueidat, for questioning after Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri filed a...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Defense Minister Maurice Slim said Thursday that the "security situation in Lebanon is under control" despite the present power vacuum at both the cabinet and presidential...
DUBAI — A member of the defense team of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd El Fattah tweeted on Thursday that he had been granted permission by Egypt's state prosecutor to visit him in...
Léa sits paralyzed behind the wheel. On the highway leading to Dbayeh, in the middle of the night, the 20-year-old girl is stuck in her car. The reason: water. The road is flooded, the water is...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad announced on Thursday that Lebanon had received 600,000 cholera vaccine doses provided by the World Health Organization in cooperation with the...
MILAN, Italy — An Italian travel blogger arrested in Iran has been released and will return home, the office of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Thursday. "After intense diplomatic work...
Sovereignists or “Bukharians”? All Lebanese actors, except for Hezbollah, gathered on Saturday around Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Waleed Bukhari for a press conference marking the 33rd anniversary...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The family of a Bahraini activist on death row was allowed physical contact with Mohammed Ramadhan for the first time in years on a prison visit this week, his wife...
BEIRUT — Lebanon could still finalize a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $3 billion bailout despite having no president and no fully empowered government, caretaker Prime Minister...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The United States plans to see what Israel's far-right politicians say "and how they act" before taking a position on its incoming government, the US ambassador said. Veteran...
BEIRUT — The United States pledged $50 million to support higher education in Lebanon on Thursday, after it announced a $72 in humanitarian assistance the previous day, the administrator of the...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The family of jailed Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd El Fattah said Thursday they were told by prison authorities that medical intervention was taken to maintain...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Thursday announced a decrease in gasoline, diesel and household gas prices, while the price of fuel oil remains unchanged. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters...
Lebanese MPs failed Thursday, at the end of a fifth dedicated parliamentary session, to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term as president expired on Oct. 31. This new failure came after...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday at 11 a.m. convened a fifth parliamentary session devoted to the election of a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term as president...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has built a hypersonic ballistic missile, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace commander as saying, in remarks likely...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Wednesday recorded 35 additional laboratory-confirmed cholera cases but no new deaths in the previous 24 hours, the Health Ministry said in its report published on Wednesday...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Free Patriotic Movement MPs announced they will vote blank during today’s presidential election session, the first attempt to...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian forces have arrested an "agent" of an opposition television broadcaster, Iran International, while the individual was fleeing the Middle Eastern country, its...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
